Parents’ Night Out is a great way to expose kids to STEM activities while you have a relaxing night on the town!

Drop your kids off at Zaniac where they will have fun while exploring, building, creating and playing while learning math and engineering concepts! Our engaging instructors will be on hand to help your child while you enjoy an evening out.

As always, our fun Parents’ Night Out events also include Tinkering, Game-Based Learning: Minecraft™ and other games.

Details:
• For kids in grades K-8
• 6:30pm – 10:00pm
• A light snack and drink is provided at 9:00pm
• Price: $27 per child

Edison Club Members – one PNO per month is included with your membership!

As always, our fun Parents’ Night Out events also include Tinkering, Game-Based Learning: Minecraft™ and other games.

2019/2020 Parents’ Night Out Schedule and Themes!

August 3 and 17: Under Pressure … Ready, set, takeoff! We will take a look at aerodynamics and propulsion. Come experience the fun of flying as we build and launch catapults, air cannons and rockets.

September 7 and 21: Maker Space Madness … Be an inventor and think like an Engineer! Make games, robots and spaceships as we use the design process and recycled materials to build something awesome!

October 5 and 19: Spooky Science … From erupting brews to fizzing bottles, we’ll scare up a good time STEAM style. Hands on exothermic science experiments in our potions lab and multisensory spooky activities will be ghoulish fun!

November 2 and 16: Alien Exploration … Journey with us into outer space to explore our universe and land on Mars! Let’s explore the surface of Mars and build a rover that can maneuver over the course surface.

December 7 and 21: It’s Electric … Light up your holiday! Explore circuitry with easy-to-use electronic building blocks. Make a holiday scene that lights up! Learn how to create circuits in Minecraft using Redstone. Create a glowing holiday card.

January 11 and 25: Zaniac Zoology … Study different biomes and classify animal rarity in Minecraft. Build an animal robot to race around an obstacle course and code your own critter animation in Scratch.

February 8 and 22: Forensic Science … Have your ever wondered how the forensics teams solve the crime? Let’s work together to gather clues, examine the crime scene and collect evidence. Together we will use scientific testing to analyze and solve our Zaniac crime. (This is kid-friendly and not scary.)

March 14 and 28: Bubble Festival  … Bubbles Everywhere! Come experience the sparkles in the iridescence, surface tension, buoyancy, and the shape of bubbles. Let’s explore math concepts and science principles as we have fun with bubbles.

April 11 and 25: Under Pressure  … Ready, set, takeoff! We will take a look at aerodynamics and propulsion. Come experience the fun of flying as we build and launch catapults, air cannons and rockets.

May 16 and 30: Earth Day Extravaganza … Let’s get creative as we learn about ways to care for our planet, how climate change happens and what it does to our Earth. Take a multisensory journey using the scientific process with experiments, and the design process in engineering, as we all become young champions of the Earth!

June 13 and 27: Space Exploration … Do you have what it takes to be an astronaut? Explore space through the eyes of an astronaut. Let’s learn more about the planets, moons, stars and space technology. Travel through our solar system and participate in real astronaut-training activities.

July 11 and 25: Olympic Games … Join us as we prepare to celebrate Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic Games. Design and build stadiums in Minecraft. Code an Olympic Game in Scratch, and use circuits to wire up your own Olympic Torch. Fun fact: Tokyo 2020 has created the first ever medal podiums made entirely out of recycled plastic.

August 8 and 22: Musical Makers … Let your inner musician play and produce at Zaniac! Build a custom synthesizer with littleBits®, sequence sounds with GarageBand, and mix beats with code to produce a soundtrack for a Scratch animation. Let the music play!